比地狱更糟糕的命运：美国内战战俘 普利策奖入围者菲茨休·布伦戴奇新作A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil WarW. Fitzhugh Brundage

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ISBN-13: 9780393541090

ISBN-10: 0393541096

Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 464

Release Date: 25 April 2026

Weight: 661g

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 36mm

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书籍简介

据新估计，美国内战中共有75万名士兵阵亡。然而，鲜为人知的是，约有40万名联邦军和邦联军士兵被俘并关押。许多战俘死于饥饿、痢疾和严寒，在条件恶劣的战俘营中，超过3万名士兵被关押在相当于十个街区大小的狭小空间里。在残酷的内战背景下，内战战俘营是历史上大规模非人化的一个令人发指的里程碑。

《比地狱更糟的命运》一书探讨了美国历史上血腥冲突中大规模监禁的根源和后果。历史学家W·菲茨休·布伦戴奇（W. Fitzhugh Brundage）以战俘的一手资料、照片和当时的报刊报道为基础，揭示了战俘营对内战的重要性远超人们通常的认知：它是南北双方谈判陷入僵局、报复行动不断升级以及政治风险日益增加的根源。布伦戴奇指出，这些战俘营并非临时拼凑的产物，而是经过精心设计和坚定决心的结果，调动了大量的人力、技术和资源——在接下来的一个世纪里，几乎每一场重大战争中都会出现类似的战俘营。

布伦戴奇还指出，安德森维尔、埃尔迈拉和瞭望角等战俘营是美国正式战争法的催化剂，而这部战争法后来成为国际法的基石。在内战期间，没有哪个地方比战俘营更能鲜明地展现人性的“善良天使”与残暴本性之间的冲突——这些战俘营既是前所未有的暴行发生地，也是被囚禁者展现无私奉献和维护人性尊严的场所。 《比地狱更糟的命运》是迄今为止关于美国内战期间战俘生活全面的著作，揭露了这场国家暴力，这场暴力导致战时被监禁的美国人比以往任何时期都多。

It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War’s prison camps were a harrowing milestone in the history of mass dehumanization.

A Fate Worse Than Hell contemplates the roots and consequences of this mass incarceration from America’s bloodiest conflict. Based on first-person prisoner accounts, photographs, and contemporaneous journalism, historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage shows how POW camps were of far greater significance to the war than is commonly understood: a subject of stalled negotiation, escalating retaliation, and increasing political liability between the Union and the Confederacy. Brundage describes how the camps were not the products of improvisation, but the results of design and resolve, marshaling prodigious quantities of manpower, technology, and resources—with successor camps in every major war during the next century.

Brundage also shows how prisons such as Andersonville, Elmira, and Point Lookout were the catalyst for the United States’ first formal laws of war, which became a bedrock for international law. Nowhere during the Civil War was the juxtaposition between our “better angels” and our capacity for brutality starker than in the prison camps—sites of unprecedented atrocity that also served as places of selflessness and human dignity among the incarcerated. The most comprehensive work to date about the life of America’s captives during the Civil War, A Fate Worse Than Hell exposes this national violence that imprisoned more Americans during wartime than ever before or since.

作者简介

W·菲茨休·布伦戴奇是古根海姆奖学金获得者，现任北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校威廉·B·乌姆斯特德历史学教授。他曾凭借《文明化酷刑》一书入围普利策奖，现居教堂山。

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a Guggenheim Fellow, is the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book Civilizing Torture, he lives in Chapel Hill.